We need a PR person as well as a Kristov Atlas available to hire.
Earlier this week I was conducting a bit of a mining experiment with flare. At one point we controlled nearly 5% of the network hashrate.
Anyway, I digress. I think there needs to be a fund where people can donate a few duff to ultimately buy in the expertise that we might be missing as a community. One idea I had was a CPU miner that only mines when your computer is idle but x% of mined blocks goes to the skill recruitment fund.
People could either donate DRK if they have some to spare or just run an executable on their computer.
What do people think about this? I reckon if enough of the community used their idle CPU cycles to mine from a dedicated NOMP instance then quite a hashrate could build up. Obviously there is nothing stopping people from pointing their GPUs at it now and again.
Not only would it be good for the PR and Comms of Darkcoin, it'd be healthy for the network too!
I think that's a great idea. I certainly would go back to mining for that purpose. Right now.... well, I have my family server still mining but not hard and the minecraft server is up and running again, LOL. But heck yah, I'd do that, and donate all to the fund.
Flare is going to run it by Evan and if it gets the nod, we're pretty much ready to go with a mining pool and CPU miner. I just need to write a few guides on how to exclude minerd from your AV software as it is detected as malware by most AV solutions.
Basically I need to establish:
1) Does the Darkcoin Foundation see a need for donations to fund testing and Quality Assurance/Management
2) If so, where does the mining fee from the darkcointalk pool go? Does it just cover costs of operating?
3) If 2 is true, then would there be any objections from the dev team and community about setting up a pool that solely donates to a ringfenced fund to be used to bring in people or pay for hosting etc.
We might even be able to structure it so 0.5% goes to paying for the pool hosting and 1.5% goes to the fund. Any remainder goes to the miners...
